Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.

The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.

Don't worry that you can't seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You'll get better and better.

Rockets are bad technology. iPhones are good technology

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

I don't think I was talking specifically about Steve Jobs. It was just a general philosophy about one person grows up and he's kind of managing companies and every day he's working making sure this is in place and that's in place.

When you're providing a service to somebody, you're the guy they always call when something's wrong.